Character appearance change during the series progress as they evolve. Here's what some characters looked like when they first appeared! Feel free to continue this topic by adding your own screenshots of their first appearances.

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Try uploading your images to an external hosting site like Imgur and then linking them from there, there's no image limit per post that way.

Anyway, imho most of those examples are stylistic changes and not design changes. Especially early GNG seemed to have this weird thing where characters had a weird, semi-realistic look before quickly shifting to the standard GNG style.

Anyway Part 2, Chutora's sons (aside from Dodo) looked a bit different during their first appearance

Buru had no white spots above his eyes.

Shouji's brindle was darker.

Shigure was much lighter and spottier.

And then there's... whatever the hell happened to Kurokirimaru and Tsumuji between the first and second chapters they appeared in.

Try uploading your images to an external hosting site like Imgur and then linking them from there, there's no image limit per post that way.

Anyway, imho most of those examples are stylistic changes and not design changes. Especially early GNG seemed to have this weird thing where characters had a weird, semi-realistic look before quickly shifting to the standard GNG style.

Anyway Part 2, Chutora's sons (aside from Dodo) looked a bit different during their first appearance

Buru had no white spots above his eyes.

Shouji's brindle was darker.

Shigure was much lighter and spottier.

And then there's... whatever the hell happened to Kurokirimaru and Tsumuji between the first and second chapters they appeared in.

(Kurokiri on the left, Tsumuji on the right)

Well, Riki's got scars he didn't had later (I think) and way more red than later. I suppose it's Yoshi's early dog style, for they're the same in Yamato.

Yeah, it's a good idea, just really time consuming.

OMG I Had no idea those guys were Kurokirimaru and Tsumuji back there O_O

This is a cool topic! Ron's design/first appearance is also one of my favourites.

Kaiken I would appreciate it if you could use an external host like imgur, then you can have as many images in the topic as you want. The reason there is a limit on attachments is because attaching images means uploading to GB's server, and I don't want anyone abusing that when external hosts are freely available

Usually, design changes don't escape me but RON I honestly had no idea despite reading his debut like 2 weeks ago X.X I guess I was too caught up in the story!
All of I can think of is Eyebrows background dog always having a perfect set design...

One of my favorite appearance changes is Cross, because she was drawn more masculine and actually spoke with male pronouns at first (in original Japanese text), then switched over when revealed to be female. It's so interesting to me!

OMG I Had no idea those guys were Kurokirimaru and Tsumuji back there O_O

I don't blame you, the change in design is both ridiculously drastic and really, really sudden. The two of them literally change appearances between two back-to-back chapters.

Chapter 19:

Chapter 20:

Also, speaking of Ron, there exists at least one colored image where he has his original pale coloration and the forehead stripe of his final design. Make of that what you will.(full image on FDQ's flickr)

One of my favorite appearance changes is Cross, because she was drawn more masculine and actually spoke with male pronouns at first (in original Japanese text), then switched over when revealed to be female. It's so interesting to me!

I bet she was supposed to be a male, and only later changed to female. Yoshi had made up his mind when Cross shoos away Gin, but on that hill, it was definitely male.

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